December 7, 2005 – 10:19 am
Nathan Young: Using word is much easier than using emacs… but using word and keeping it from breaking things is about as hard as using emacs.
October 26, 2005 – 10:56 pm
A free (beer + source) browser for SQLite databases: Mac/Win/Unix
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
An Ok/Cancel comic from last year provides a comment on John Grubner’s gripes about Linux usablity. The missing fourth panel should have ESR explaining that if everyone were armed, Open Source Software would be usable due to the threat of retribution by disgruntled users.
January 1, 2004 – 12:00 am
Don Box announces he has an XSLT transform that converts a Word XML file to SOAP and XHTML.
So post the widget already, but not as an .exe file. Kind of useless for that cross-platform niceness.
Link
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January 1, 2004 – 12:00 am
I want to gently respond to Robert Scoble’s post about offshoring and Open Source:
I find it ironic that Slashdot is worrying about offshoring of programming. These are the same folks who cheer everytime a country like Israel or China chooses to go with free software over software written in America that costs money. Nice to [...]
November 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
Chris Neppes, over at Port80 Software, sent me a heads up on their monthly survey of what web server software the top 1,000 corporations use.
They’re promoting the survey in response to some gloating by the Apache folks about their 63.98% share in the August 2003 Netcraft Survey.
Port80 looked at the response headers from the home [...]
November 19, 2003 – 12:00 am
Bookmarking this download of a style sheet to transform WordProcessingML to XML so I can get on a Windows computer and run the .exe file to get the bloody XML file out of it. Anyone from MS reading this? Please put up a ZIP file.
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November 18, 2003 – 12:00 am
I had an “oop, ack” reaction reading the documentation for the Microsoft Office Word XML format the Danes posted yesterday.
Read the section on formatting text: WordML defines a run to represent some sequence of text within a paragraph. Inside the run, you turn text decoration on an off with semaphores. Instead of:
<w:r>
<w:t><w:b>Hello World</w:b></w:t>
</w:r>
The [...]
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November 15, 2003 – 12:00 am
As Ursula K. Le Guin says, “don’t be a Feminist, but.”
Yes, You Are
Part Two
Feminism has no dress code, special diet, or secret handshake. [ thanks to Laurel ]
On the du Toitification of the the American Conservative
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
The Philosopheraptor
After a comparison of du Toit’s screed to a wet diaper, an acquaintance observed that unlike Kim [...]
I get occasional questions from people reading my A List Apart article on mod_rewrite looking for an equivalent module for IIS. Another reader had found one back in 2000, and here’s another:
Port 80 Software’s PageXchanger is a plugin for Microsoft’s IIS that provides mod_rewrite and mod_negotiation functionality.
Tantek announces the end of Internet Explorer for Macintosh as a standalone package. The browser will live on as part of the MSN client for Mac OS.
Back in the late 20th Century, I received an email from CSS guru Todd Fahrner asking if I’d played with IE5 for Mac yet. I had, and it was [...]
In which Professor Tufte addresses the tyrany of PowerPoint.
April 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
Simon St. Laurent linked a recent presentation he gave on XML in Office 11 from his Advogato journal. A couple of takeaways:
XSLT will become even more important.
Since InfoPath is not going to be part of the standard version of Office, the Open Source community and other Microsoft competitors have a huge opening to bring forth:
their [...]
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December 16, 2002 – 12:00 am
At xmlhack, Eric van der Vlist covers Jean Paoli’s presentation at XML 2002 on XML support in MS Office.
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